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The Actual Performance of Aspiring Low Energy Social Houses in the United Kingdom

Author(s) -

Rory V. Jones,

Alba Fuertes,

Steve Goodhew,

Pieter de Wilde

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

energy procedia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474

H-Index - 81

ISSN - 1876-6102

DOI - 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.615

Subject(s) - occupancy , energy consumption , stock (firearms) , energy performance , energy (signal processing) , low energy , business , engineering , architectural engineering , environmental economics , economics , mechanical engineering , statistics , physics , electrical engineering , mathematics , atomic physics

This paper compares the actual energy performance of six flats and two houses built to low energy standards (Code for Sustainable Homes Levels 4 and 5) with a near identical flat and house built to minimum compliance only (Building Regulations). As low energy homes are only recently emerging in the United Kingdom housing stock, and even fewer are subject to Post Occupancy Evaluation, little is known about their actual energy use in operation. The results show that low energy dwellings may consume more energy than expected and the behaviour of the occupants residing in low energy homes plays an important role in determining their actual energy consumption.This research was supported by the eViz project, funded by the EPSRC (grant reference EP/K002465/1) and the EnerGAware project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation under grant agreement No 649673

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